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• Historical American Newspapers – a reminder

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/historical-american-newspapers-a-reminder/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 The Chronicling America database from the Library of Congress  provides access to more that 8.1 million newspapers 1836-1922.

• Junk News Aggregator

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/junk-news-aggregator/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 A new resource which aims to track the spread of junk news on Facebook.

• Peace Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/peace-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://www.peacewomen.org/ A project of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) which seeks to promote peace and disarmament.

• American presidency and social media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/american-presidency-and-social-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012   http://techpresident.com/news/23104/help-digital-infrastructure-obama-wins-re-election   TechPresident has a good review of the role of social media in the election.

• Guardian newspaper launches new business blogs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/07/guardian-newspaper-launches-new-business-blogs/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.

• Report the Abuse

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/report-the-abuse/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 A recently launched NGO which seeks to expose crimes and supports victims of abuse within the humanitarian and development aid sector.

• Truthy project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2010/11/12/truthy-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 12, 2010 Aims to analyse and create visual representations of how information is diffused on Twitter.

• Reporters Without Frontiers – Arab Revolt

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/19/arab-revolt-reporters-without-frontiers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 19, 2011 http://en.rsf.org/the-arab-revolt.html Reporters without Frontiers has created a special section on their website to cover the recent Arab uprisings.

• United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/united-nations-social-development-network-unsdn/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 http://unsdn.

• How much does it cost to raise a child in the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/24/how-much-does-it-cost-to-raise-a-child-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 24, 2018 The latest report from the Child Poverty |Action group gives the figures for raising a child to age 18, based on what the public thinks is a minimum standard of living.